Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3827, Witt Fuller, Mass

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Fuller, Witt Deborah
R. 3827
CONTENTS

POWER OF ATTORNEY AND CERTIFICATE.
Know all men by these presents, That I, Laura Matthews of the County of Windsor and State of Vermont do hereby constitute and appoint H. H. Bostwick, of Auburn, N. Y., my true and lawful attorney, irrevocable, for me and in my behalf, to prosecute my claim for a Pension, or such pension benefits as I may be entitled to as a child of Will Fuller & Deborah Fuller, on account of the Military services of said Will Fuller in the Revolutionary War, or the pension to which they were entitled at the time of their death without receiving.
and to receive such Certificate as may be issued, and to appoint one or more attorneys under him for the purposes aforesaid, hereby revoking any power of attorney which may have been heretofore given, and confirming all things that my attorney, the said H. H. Bostwick, may lawfully do in the premises.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 9th day of January A. D. 1855.
Erastus H. Olds Charles H. Burton
Laura Matthews
Acknowledged before me the day and year last above written. and I certify that I am satisfied that the said Laura Matthews is a child of said Will & Deborah Fuller. Harvey Burton JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
STATE OF Vermont } ss: I, Norman Williams, clerk of the COUNTY OF Windsor } County Court within and for the county and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Harvey Burton before whom the foregoing acknowledgment was taken, was at the date thereof an acting justice of the peace, duly elected and authorized to take the same.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 10th day of January A. D. 1855.
Norman Williams, Clerk.

State of Vermont  Windsor County ss } On this 4th day of October A.D. 1838 Personally appeared before the Probate Court of the District of Hartford, Deborah Fuller a resident of Cromwell in the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont aged 77 years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay & pension to certain widows. That she is the widow of Witt Fuller who was a Private in the army of the Revolution. That her said husband enlisted as she believes in Col. Brooks' Regiment of the Massachusetts line of the Revolutionary army, from the Town of Warwick for the term of three years. and at the expiration of that time was regularly discharged & that his discharge was destroyed by fire together with his house several years since. That when he entered the service he lived in Warwick Massachusetts and that she has no documentary proof of his said service, and is not certain he was in Col. Brooks Regt.
She further declares that she was married to the said Witt Fuller on the 16 th day of — Seventeen hundred & eighty seven. That her husband the aforesaid Witt Fuller died on the 17 th day of December 1817. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, Seventeen hundred & ninety four. Nor at the time above stated.
Deborah Fuller
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written
Before. John S. May Judge

I Col Billings Register of the Court of Probate of the District of Hartford, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Deborah Fuller for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this 4 th day of October A D 1838
Col Billings Register " " " "

Thomas Mallard of Warwick in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being of the age of seventy seven years I depose & say that I was present at the marriage of Witt Fuller and Deborah Garfield, they were married by the Rev Samuel Reed former Minister of Warwick in the month of May one thousand seven hundred & eighty seven, and further the deponent saith not
Thomas Mallard
Franklin ss On this fifteenth day of May A 1889 personally appeared the above named Thomas Mallard and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me Samuel Wheeler Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Seal of Office, June 7. 1889.
I hereby certify that the above Samuel Wheeler was a Justice of the Peace at the date of his attestation witness to Seal of the State.
John P. Pray, Secy of the State

Marriage intended between Witt Fuller and Deborah Garfield Batts of Wamwick. May Twelfth Seventeen Hundred and eighty Seven
The above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in plain legible figures as follows May 12 th 1787
Samuel Wheelock Town Clerk of Wamwick
I Samuel Wheelock above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Wamwick County of Franklin at present -wealth of Massachusetts & that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me May 15 th 1889-
Samuel Wheelock Town Clerk
Franklin Co Wamwick May 15 th 1889
Subscribed & sworn to before me
Joseph Stevens Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify I have carefully examined the Town records of S d Wamwick from the earliest dates and find no certificate of a marriage having been solemnized between Witt Fuller and Deborah Garfield and I have ascertained there is none on the Church records -
Samuel Wheelock Town Clerk
Greenfield Co Wamwick May 15 th 1889
Subscribed & sworn to before me
Joseph Stevens Justice of the Peace

Cambridge Mass. J. M. ...
Seal of Office June 6. 1832.
I hereby certify that the within Joseph Stevens was a justice of the Peace at the date of his installation witness my hand & seal of the same June 7. 1832 Seal of the same

Ira Davis
Augt 29/49
Respecting the claim of Deborah Fuller to W. Almes pension - take up the same immediately
Comr. of Pensions please answer the within inquiry.
Dept of the Interior Sept 3/49

Deborah Fuller widow of Witt Fuller Vermont.
Suspended let July 31. Ira Davis - same 4 th Sept 1849 H.H. Bostwick Feb 24 1855
Act July 7 1838
13911
Deborah Fuller Widow of Witt Fuller Vermont
Ira Davis July 31 (no year given) " " Sep 4 1849 H.H. Bostwick Feb 24 1855 " " March 9 1855
3829
July 7 1838

5827
REJECTED
P. O.
Deborah Fuller
Service wid. of Hitt
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Warwick Vt July 26 1849
Dear Sir,
Enclosed is the application of Deborah Fuller for a Pension under the act of July 1838. She states that her husband was hired by a class in 1780 or 81 and thinks he served in Col. Brooks Regiment. I have applied several times to the Secretary of War, for evidence of the service, and am informed that there are in his office no rolls of the three years service at the close of the revolution, but that those rolls are in the War Department at Washington. I have delayed sending the Papers in the hope of finding some one who was in the service with him, but have not been able to do so. I now forward the application & proof of marriage, with the request that you would examine the rolls of the latter three years service, for the name of her husband, Witt Fuller of Warwick Vt.
Yours respectfully Geo Davis
To the Commissioner of Pensions

Monmouth Va Dec. 20 1831
Brother Ewart,
You will recollect that when I saw you at Windsor I gave you a minute of the Revolutionary claim of Deborah Fuller, widow of Wilt Fuller, who was in the close line of the last three years service of the Revolution, but we were unable to state the regt in which he served. Mrs. Fuller is dead & I enclose a certificate of the court showing the time of her decease & the names of her surviving children. I do this for the reason that I heard nothing from you in relation to the matter, and believing his name may be found in the Department, I believe all the proof necessary is in the office, with the exception of the service. No rolls of this service can be found in Boston, & you may be able to obtain an examination of the rolls in the Pension office and thus furnish the necessary proof. If you can accomplish the object you shall have a fair compensation.
Yours very truly Isaac Davis

Auburn, Me. July 16 th 1855.
Hon d J. P. Waldo, Com r of Pensions.
Sir,
Herewith I send power of Attorney, and further proofs, in the case of Deborah Fuller, widow of Will Fuller. She died Oct 13 th 1841. She was, I suppose, entitled under the Act of July 7 th 1838, to 5 years pension. I trust that these proofs will be deemed sufficient upon the points to which they relate.
Yours truly
W. H. Westwick

Auburn, Me. March 30 1855,
Hon'd S P Waldo, Comr of Pensions.
Dear Sir,
In reply to yours of the 24th ult. relative to the case of Deborah Fuller, I would say that it is supposed that Mrs Fuller was mistaken as to the Colonel's name , and that in fact her husband Will Fuller, is the same Will Fuller who served under Col. Foss. I trust you will reconsider this case favorably.
Yours truly
W H Dastwick

Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Secretary's Office, Boston;
August 28. 1849.
Sir,
There are no regular rolls of the service of the last three years in the Continental Army; the Army books in this office extending only to Dec 31. 1781. Services after that time are found only on a few Miscellaneous rolls, and the name of Witt Fuller does not appear on any of them.
Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant, W m Swift, S ecy S tate

Auburn Me. Feby 28 th 1855.
W P Strong Esq Office of Secy of State of Mass. Boston. Mass.
Dear Sir,
On 1 st inst I wrote to you for a certificate of service of Will Fuller in the Revolutionary war. And soon after rec d a certificate from you of which the enclosed is a copy. Upon presenting it to the Commissioner of Pensions, he states that the service claimed in this case was stated to have been under Col Brooks.
Is there no record of his service under Col Brooks, or in Col Brooks Regt? Or, Is it not probable that the service claimed to have been rendered under Col Brooks was the same as that certified to have been under Col Vose, or in Col Vose's Regt?
The Will Fuller in question, was, I believe, a resident of Warwicks, Franklin Co, Mass.
Your early reply will confer a favor upon
Yours truly A H Dasturick

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, March 2 nd 1855.
I Hereby Certify, That from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the only man by the name of Will Fuller on the rolls in this office is the man described on Certificate dated Boston February 13 th 1855 as belonging to Capt. Francis Green's Comp. Col. Vose's Regt. 8 mos. 26 days. in 1782. as private. Also in Capt. Joseph Williams Comp. Col. Joseph Vose's Regt. for the year 1783. 12 mos. as private.
I have no means of establishing his place of residence.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. N. Fisher Secretary of the Commonwealth.

The claim of Deborah Fuller, Widow of Mills Fuller, who was a private and enlisted at Warwick Mass. about 1780 or '81, for three years or for during the war. She points now is, to ascertain the Regiment in which he served. His widow thought he was a during-the-war's-man , from the fact that he always insisted that he was entitled to Bounty Land. The application is under the act of 1838. Quere, If the enlistment was for during the war, does not the claim come under the act of 1828. He was thought to have served in Moore's Regt. but when now have been examined, & his name not found, as I was informed by Mr. Barrett.
Yours &c.
J. Davis,
If on examination, the proof of service be found, please certify me of the fact before issuing the certificate.
Mr. Cole, will oblige me by looking at this matter & address Mrs. Davis, Warwick Vermont. She is a very clever old gentleman & promised an answer H. S. Evans

Auburn, Me. Feby 1 st 1855,
To the Comptroller. Of the State of Massachusetts. Boston Suffolk Co. Mass.
Sir.
Enclosed herewith find Power of Attorney of Sam d Mathews, child of Mitt Fuller dec d . Also $2.00.
Please send me a certificate of what- ever appears upon the Records of the State, relative to the Revolutionary services of said Mitt Fuller.
He was, I think, a resident of the Town of Warwick, Franklin Co. Mass.
Please return the Power of Attorney as I wish to use it, in an application for pension benefits for the children of said Mitt Fuller.
Yours truly
H. W. P. Astuck

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston,
February 13 th 1855.
I Hereby Certify, That from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that The name of Will Fuller is borne on pay roll of Capt. Francis Green's Comp. Col. Joseph Vose's Regt. 8 mos 26 days in 1782. Also in Capt. Joseph Williams Comp. Col. Joseph Vose's Regt. 12 mos. in 1783.
See "List of final Settlement."
No. 27. 942 } $ 136. 43 " 28. 864 " 30. 135 " 31. 074

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth

Wadsworth Franklin Co. second Parish
I do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record in Vol. 1. No. 1 of the records of Births Deaths & Marriages in the Town Clerk's Office in Wadsworth
Marriage intended between William Allen and Deborah Garfield at Wadsworth on May 12 th 1787.
I do hereby certify that the above named deponent says that he held the office of Town Clerk in the Town and County of State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of Wadsworth.
Given under my hand this 16 th day of January 1855
Franklin ss. Jan. 16 th 1855 Personally appeared the above named Ira Draper and made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed is true
Before me James Stockwell Justice of the Peace

I have examined for many years by believing, I cannot give the Marriage Solemnized. I found a number of others who have published about the same time. But no record of their Marriage before those years then does exist. I hope to be near all the records left as they ought to have been. I think there is no doubt but within many years were found in the village but the return was neglected as as here in other cases. My best knowledge I send you this information as the best I can get whether it will answer or not, I have done it in other cases similar to this.
Yours &c. John D. Sleeper